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There seems to be a lot of flicking going on with these lads, we should let them know it's wrong
They're running at 4-minute pace (at a guess)!
They are flicking their legs back purely because of the momentum. Anyone running slower than that should not try to replicate that form. Deliberately flicking the legs back like that would be a highly inefficient running gait.0 -
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TFBubendorfer wrote: »They're running at 4-minute pace (at a guess)!
They are flicking their legs back purely because of the momentum. Anyone running slower than that should not try to replicate that form. Deliberately flicking the legs back like that would be a highly inefficient running gait.
Over 4:30 /mi - from Great North Run (half marathon) 2013.
I do not see how the "momentum" would be significantly different at say 6 min /mile. I disagree that you need to be at 4 min mile pace before running like that. Maybe if you are shuffling at 12 min /mile. However we should be cautious about trying to change just one aspect of gait in a connected system of movement.
An extract from Science of Running here:Kicking your butt:
When athlete’s sprint or run pretty quickly, most have a high back kick where the foot folds up and almost hits their butt as it passes underneath them. This is a good thing because it increases the angular velocity of the lower leg. But we don’t get there by thinking about actively kicking ourselves in the butt…Why?
Because the reason the foot goes close to the butt is because of the inertial force that the thigh exerts on the lower leg. Once the thigh is extended as far back as it’s going to go, it then shoots forward. Well, since the thigh and lower leg are linked, the thigh changes directions a tad “sooner” and moves faster (because it’s closer to the rotation point…the hip) then it has a profound effect on what the lower leg does. The thigh essentially “drags” the lower leg with it. The faster the thigh moves, the more it “drags” it. So what’s the effect that we see? The faster the thigh moves forward, the more the lower leg folds up to the butt. It’s simply an inertial force.Bunch of chancers
How much forward lift do they have?
Enough
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this is interesting, here's the video those stills are from
One of the things I've been told repeatedly is not to teach the heel flick running drill, that action shouldn't be encouraged, that running should include no backwards pull of the foot. The standing version of the action would be to lift the heel in line with the other leg, with the knee coming forward, rather than bend the knee in place and lift the leg behind.
But there's a definite backlift in that video, and this article says this was something Salazar is deliberately training in Farah0 -
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The Muppet wrote: »Knowing that area reasonably well I would imagine that's quite a hilly course, not that that'll bother you ossoslo.
Dunno about it not being a bother to me, but it will be good training for Connemara!!!
Thanks!
Yer man faded quite badly though
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIWJgLxCDY4
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